Have you ever just had the feeling that you can build anything as long as you had the tools for it? Because for most of my life that is exactly how I felt. That is until I bought my self some Ikea furniture. Let me tell you something. Ikea furniture was spawned from hell! I truly believe that who ever came up with the idea for Ikea wanted to see the world burn... Well one day I decided to act like a grown up and buy my self a dresser and another weird set of skinny drawers. So I find the furniture that will fit perfectly into my room and I drive happily over to the store to pick it up. My first problem was how heavy the boxes were! I swear each of them weighed about 80 lbs.
I finally get them back to my house and take the boxes into my tiny room so that I can start building. At this time I was so excited to build something with my own two hands, I felt like a freaking superhuman! I don't know why it felt so awesome, but it did. So I open up the dresser boxes and began sorting out all of the different pieces of wood and metal, I was feeling like a boss. Well I actually began putting it all together and let me tell you what! I hate building things! I stabbed my finger with the screw driver like 20 times, and yes I cried! I was so frustrated with the 10,000 screws that came with the damn thing! The Ikea booklet came with a picture of two people smiling, meaning that it required another person to help build it. Well I was on my own and I was miserable. Actual it took me about a week to build it because I would get so frustrated and angry with the thing that I would just give up and walk away. But when I finished the dresser I felt like a freaking boss!
The next week I built another set of drawers. Again I smashed my fingers, but I managed to finish that set in about two hours. The problem with me is that sometimes I feel like I have the memory of a goldfish because I quickly forget how much I have hurt my hands and then I want to build something again. This is a sad cycle that I never seem to be able to get out of because about two weeks ago I built a garden in my back yard and ended up with a bunch of painful calluses on my hands. I have no idea what I will build next but I do know that I will probably end up hurt and I will most likely end in tears again. But at the end I will be a freaking super boss and I will feel so awesome that next week I will probably build something else and start the whole cycle over again.
